Michael Gerber

Biography

Michael  Gerber is the Michael Simmons and Michael Gerber Professor of Law, a title that recognizes faculty mentorship. His area of expertise is bankruptcy law. He is the author of a Chapter 11 casebook used in law schools throughout the United States. He is a contributing author of Collier on Bankruptcy, the leading treatise on bankruptcy law. He writes and lectures on corporate governance in bankruptcy, bankruptcy ethics, the treatment of intellectual property interests in bankruptcy, dot-com bankruptcies, international and comparative insolvency law,  and other business bankruptcy and reorganization topics. At Brooklyn Law School, he helps lead the annual Barry Zaretsky  Roundtable  Discussion,  which focuses on cutting-edge bankruptcy issues. He is the  Director of the law school's foreign summer study program.  He also served as the Associate Dean for Development and as the interim Dean.

Prior to joining the faculty,  Professor  Gerber practiced law at Proskauer Rose and was later Counsel to Brown Raysman. He has served on the Merit Selection Panel for a Bankruptcy Judge in the Eastern District of New York, and on the Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization of the New York City Bar.